Sunday, June 6, 2010

I hate that she looks so lovely


So many of the words so much made of and we hardly know what they mean they mean so much to us all.


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Why it’s there, it’s there! In bloody print!


Sand in your toes. At connectbyhertz.com.


And in the sea and in the air and the upper parts concur.


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She prefers the feel of paper. The texture and smell matter more to her than the content. Texture and smell are things you can feel.


Rethink Science. At the 2010 World Science Festival.


It increasingly becomes the site of value production or nostalgia. It becomes boring. It becomes something to put out, next to the trash or in it, depending on your opinions of if someone else would want it or not. It becomes a hall of litter, of regret and the whispering of “I’m Sorry”s.

(or in the case of the person seeing the ball coming)


Best of Broadway 64t Annual TONY Awards, June 13th. Nominated for 3 Awards: including Best Musical. Nominated for 8 Awards including: Best Musical and Best Original Score. Nominated for 4 Awards including: Best Revival of a Musical. Nominated for 2 Awards including: Best Original Score. Nominated for 11 Awards including: Best Musical. Nominated for 3 Awards including: Best Revival of a Musical.



(and those seeing the ball coming first)


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Actually print is where words go to live--we're still reading the ancient Greeks. On the other hand, I question the life span of blogs. Blogging is great if you want to see yourself published unedited, and the Internet is wonderful when you already know what you are interested in. But there is tremendous value in passionate, knowledgeable, talented editors who can assign stories and photographs with budgets to do them better and more authoritatively than any individual can. The reader of a magazine like National Geographic can depend on the information being accurate, coherent, concise, beautiful and created by the by most talented writers and photographers in the world. And readers may learn about something that they didn't know they were interested in. Print is the perfect introduction to an informed debate and to the deep resources of the web. The words and pictures in print or on a magazine's web site become the basis for searching, linking, talking and ranting for those with the time or inclination to do so. The web is the friend of print, not its killer.


I am the kind of girl who loves to hang out with friends. I have always had a busy social schedule, especially in the summer, with my group of friends - weekends at the beach, camping trips, hiking, biking - there was always something fun for us to do. But, as life moves on, the number of single friends in my social circle began to dwindle. Suddenly summer was here, and my friends weren’t really around anymore to hang out with. I was surfing the web for “social” things to do, and came across what looked like the perfect place to meet new people - Club Getaway, the “summer camp for grownups”! Just under 2 hours away from my NYC apartment, it seemed to have the perfect mix of sports, adventure, partying and new friends. I made my reservations and hopped on the Getaway Bus, leaving from the Upper East Side, a few days later. The camp was gorgeous! 300 acres surrounded by mountains overlooking a sparkling lake. Nothing prepared me for the fun I was about to have. I meet my new roomie (another thirtysomething girl from NYC) and we head to welcome cocktails to check out the weekend’s activities and meet our fellow campers. There are plenty of people who came by themselves, which is refreshing to see. We’re overwhelmed by the friendliness of the place, the athletic looking crowd and the schedule of almost non-stop activity. Following cocktails, a delicious dinner is served family-style and then it’s on to the Boathouse by the lake for an evening of dancing (with an amazing DJ) volleyball under the stars and lots of cocktail chatter. At the morning’s bountiful breakfast we all sit around the table planning out the day’s adventures. The choices are endless - waterskiing, trapeze, mountain and road biking, hiking, tennis, volleyball, dance classes, rock climbing, cooking and wine tasting classes, and yoga! I opt for the 10am tennis lesson, the 11am trapeze class and waterskiing at noon. What was I thinking? It was my most athletic day in years! The rest of the weekend is a flurry of activity. With 300 friendly, active people, it’s quite the social vacation. Whether learning to play tennis with a small group or hiking the Appalachian Trail with 40, it’s never been easier to meet lots of new people. I come back home with plans to meet up with some of my new friends in the city, reservations with others for another weekend at Club Getaway, and a phone number of a cute boy. Looks like I’m going to have a busy summer!